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the quote fluctuates to the 4th decimal place but I can only transact in $0.05 increments.

Glad to see that crap go. When I trade many of these small caps I am only able to execute in 5 cent increments but there is trading quoted and happening in fractions of a cent!

I have an entity that has elected mark-to-market accounting IRC 475(f) for trading in securities. If you are doing high trading volume where the traded tickers repeat day after day then you pretty much have to do this election. Otherwise a life-altering surprise can await you at tax time due to...

my broker's corp action guys were not able to help. Just got off the phone with GD's transfer agent though. They said May 4th!

Any experts help me out here? I am holding CSRA stock. CSRA was bought out by General Dynamics recently in an all cash transaction. In my brokerage account it still shows I am holding CSRA but trading in CSRA has been halted for about a week now. So the money is completely locked up/illiquid...

Can't say from personal experience I am in my 40s. But having dealt with many older retirees as clients over the years I can say that is definitely the case. What is your wife's obsession?

Whatever interests or obsessions somebody has in their 40s will still be there when they are 75 or 90. Age deteriorates us physically+mentally but not our obsessions.

I bought a property in July 2006 for $552,500 and sold it in August 2011 for $437,500

Go to profit.ly and look at the trade history and current trades of the Gurus. Those are usually the popular penny stocks du jour.

Even the pros got creamed this month. This is the NAV for the LJMIX mutual fund. The short vola trade became too crowded with professional money. Next few weeks will be interesting as Feb numbers start to roll in, a few casualties perhaps.

"crushing it" ? 7.1% CAROR with -5.5% DD ??

I used to trade ICE products but stopped due to their exorbitant data fees. TD Ameritrade stopped offering all ICE contracts because they are a douchebag exchange.

I don't feel sorry for this guy - managing 9 billion with 3 straight years of negative returns. I'd love to have clients like that! I've had clients scream at me on the phone for a mild drawdown lasting a couple of months!

besides trading my own $ I am also a registered investment advisor. The RIA biz has been slow the past few years so I just bought another unrelated (non financial) business to smooth out my yearly cashflows.

Nice. I wish i had balls like that. These days i am happy with 20%.

I have a lot of respect for the guy. His book had an influence on me back in the mid 1990's. I liked his adaptive moving average that used signal to noise ratio.

hi Bone: When you enter your ZN/ZB trade are you trading 3 ZN's for every ZB. Would other ratios still look trendy (like 2 ZN per 1 ZB)? Another question. I trade GE spreads in my account. Given that Libor is slated to be retired in 3 years, do you think there will be another exchange traded...

I favor Baron's policy of allowing sponsors to delete threads. After all they are paying to publicly advertise their services and are sacrificing their anonymity. There might be a disgruntled ex-client who decides to engage in a flame campaign. Or maybe an anonymous competitor who posts...

The fundamental premise is flawed. Secret alphas on sitting on a 'trusted' third party server. If a coder has created a smooth wealth building strategy it would remain with him and only him to his grave (maybe he would pass it on to his kids post retirement). This is why others such as...

I got screwed by Obama now I will be getting screwed by Trump. The new tax policy is anything but simple or fair. The lower corporate rates and pass-through rates only apply to certain types of businesses (they are picking the winners and losers). My business unfortunately is not in one of the...